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Recent Examples of buffoonery Certainly hope none of you will be complicit in this buffoonery. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 May 2025 The quarterback with a rocket arm had moments of brilliance and moments of buffoonery. Jim Reineking, USA Today, 6 May 2025 His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid. David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025 Certainly, an irreverent portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte is warranted, but at two and a half hours of alternating brutality and buffoonery, this movie really tries one’s patience. Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for buffoonery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buffoonery
Noun
  • Finally, after plenty of clowning, Taylor Swift has revealed that her 12th album is on the way, titled The Life of a Showgirl.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This is a work in which the slapstick clowning and the tricky verbal non sequiturs should be merely the surface for roiling undercurrents of anguish, futility, despair and fear.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Only an Aries, like Lily, can take Barney’s jabs in a joking way.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When Peanut pulled his second escape act, his owners knew where to look and handled Peanut's disappearance in a joking manner.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During Full House, Sweetin said the child actors would often come across as more professional than their adult counterparts amid all the tomfoolery.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Rite of passage or midnight tomfoolery?
    Jake Allen, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As for Abdul-Mateen, the clownery will resume for him on Broadway.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Tirhakah Love is a senior writer at New York Magazine and the host of the new evening newsletter Dinner Party, a daily email that touches on all things entertainment — that means film, television, music, tech, and gaming — plus politics and corporate clownery.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Butch Baker, who was Henry County sheriff until 2014, recalled an incident in which Bertram was accused of inappropriate horseplay at the community corrections office.
    Tony Cook, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Political pranking is traditionally thought of as benign foolery targeting the powerful.
    Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • The scene doesn’t go as planned, leading its irate French director Caroline Lescot (Nathalie Richard) to cause a slapstick ruckus, shot at a distance by Köhler’s camera.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Expect all the slapstick, misunderstandings, and saucy humor that made the show a ratings powerhouse.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some parts of your curriculum might invite playfulness and bold new efforts, while others deserve more caution.
    Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The mix also alludes to the sense of playfulness that defines the homeowners’ personalities.
    Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2025

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